From: arne@vajhoej.dk

On 8/29/2025 5:44 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <68b2087a$0$712$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
> Arne Vajhøj   wrote:
>> On 8/29/2025 9:11 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>> In article <108k9de$1f69$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Simon Clubley   wrote:
>>>> And _this_ is an example of why Simon's policy of backets around
>>>> everything makes it explicitly clear what was intended. :-)
>>>
>>> *At some expense for expert users.
>>
>> I doubt that.
>>
>> I would expect with parenthesis's:
>>
>> actually read expression : 2 second
>> thinking "nice to see good craftmanship" : 1 second
>
>      if ((a == 6) || (a == 7)) {
> 	// do the thing...
>      }
>
> "Huh; I wonder why they parenthesized `a == 6` and `a == 7`....
> the operator precedence is obvious, so what am I missing here?

Not being an expert.

There are experts that like to drizzle parenthesis's out
over the code.

There are experts that do not like to drizzle parenthesis's out
over the code.

There are no experts that has never heard of the practice of
drizzling parenthesis's out over the code.

Arne

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